Rob Feldman, creator of the Dr. Shroud series, will be releasing a DVD for sale via the web on July 12th. You can pre-order a copy via his on-line store! Keep an eye on his website for more info!

Brook Burgess, producer of the Broken Saints series, has won the Producer of the Year award at the Canadian New Media Awards! He won for the Broken Saints DVD!

I received an email recently that I found inspiring, so I thought I would share it:

My name is Walter Baumann. I am a student at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, and Newgrounds member "Kyrren". I have been patronizing your site since the summer of 2003. I became a member in February of this year. I always thought of Newgrounds as a nice fun "underground" website where people throw ideas at one another; with really sort of a small-town-ish sort of atmosphere. I knew there must be many thousands of members, but it always had a comfortable "we can all do it if we try" vibe to the flash and audio portals. If anyone tried hard enough, they could become good at Flash or making music.

As I sat, rating new portal entries, I decided to watch one of the Top 50 of all time that I hadn't yet seen. I generally keep up with them, but not always every single one. I was watching "Stop Crying Your Heart Out," it gave me pause. A "big picture" sort of concept hit me. And I realized it.

Newgrounds is changing the face of modern animation.

Wow.

I had always thought that this site was just a hangout for whoever wanted to make cartoons, but the truth of the matter is, there are world-renown artist (like Adam Phillips, for example). This whole site is full of not internet slackers, but creative and dedicated artists who willingly submit their creations to be consumed for free by the public.

All I wanted to say in this letter, is thank you for giving all these artists a place to express their ideas and emotions, and to get feedback from thousands of other like-minded contributors. People like you and the members of Newgrounds change the face of our entertainment industry, and ultimately, our culture and society.

You know you didn't even read the article *sigh*, whatever though, nice to here about all of those DVD's about BS and the like hehe, also indeed with things like SCYHO, and with people that are famous for their animation spending their time to add to NG's archives, is indeed rather amazing, and i can see where the letter boy is coming from heh :)

The Truth.
but seriously why is this shit still only 3 lines shit used to be 5 lines, HOW MUCH MORE FUCKIN BANDWIDTH WAS THAT TOM, HOW MUCH? Also, hot rosalina porn link ;D

really cool to see some great artists on NG get the recognition they deserve.
thats a pretty cool thank you letter from him, kinda cool that some one going big time, thanking people that inspired him.
thats great! :)

yeah, It seems like a lot of the artists are getting the hang of using DVDs.
At first I thought it was just illwillpress, I'd see people wearing Foamy T-shirts
and ask them what they think of Newgrounds, and they have never heard of it.

Yea that stop crying your eyes out movie is pretty cool. Colabs are always interesting.
And on another note my three fav movies on NG of all time just hit 1, 2 and 3 on the top 50 =O)
1. The Maxwell Edison Story
2. Dad's Home
3. Fallen Angel: Teaser
In the exact order I like them strangely enough, now all I need is The Match at 4th and Cam Portal Escapades 8 in 5th. The ultimate top 5 =O)
That guy said what we were all thinking top stuff fella. A second from all us less literate members, well fuckin done Tom and the NG team.

That is a very interesting email. Everyone wants free entertainment.. and newgrounds is the best place for that. It's a great place for anyone who is willing to try with flash to keep at it and keep improving.

Looking good tom, seems like that little idea you had way back when has turned into something so much more and we are thankful for allowing us to enjoy the entertainment for many years and many more...

This whole site is full of not internet slackers, but creative and dedicated artists who willingly submit their creations to be consumed for free by the public.

Wow. Just wow. I am not a flash artist, as I really do suck at animation, but I am a funny person, (Or so my friends say). I'm more of an ideas man, a writer if you will, but even I felt the emotion hit reading this. He's right, Newgrounds isn't just a slackers website, It's a community! We're all like a huge family! Sure we don't all get along and some of us are more talented than the younger ones but can you see it? We are the Newgrounds family! Don't just dismiss my idea, here me through. Take it in.

I am a student at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, and Newgrounds member "Kyrren".

I dont wanna hear from some fucking N00B! I am gonna search for this dudes profile and email him and totally rip on his ass.Didnt I make a thread saying Ng is changing the entire entertainment industry,and go into great detial? Ill be sure to link this.